Alcohol, the bane of the drinking classes. Here are 11 useful tips on how to avoid hangovers.

An excellent video showing the Universe to scale. Makes you feel very very insignificant! An astronaut loses his camera in space while working on the International Space Station. The most powerful automatic weapon in the world Building instructions for every Lego set EVER Dragonfly: The World’s First Winged Robot Video Demonstration

Full 3D video projection. A prototype of a 3D projector using 256 bits of string, very cool. Asimov, the Honda robot, trips going up some steps, the poor guy How to get out of quicksand, for your hiking trips around home I guess. Final Fortress is a great flash game. defend your city from the [...]

How to triple boot XP, Vista and Ubuntu on one PC. Pearsonified Blog The 25 Funniest Analogies Why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby, an entertaining, if a litle long-winded, manual to the Ruby programming language. Ruby on Rails Howtos Rolling with Ruby on Rails, a guide to installing and building a web application with Ruby on [...]

Tactical Assassin is a fun game. The soundtrack and little tricks required to complete missions really make it cool. Unfortunately it finishes too soon and you wish there was more missions. Can you beat 76% accuracy on your first attempt?

If you’d like to give Ruby a go, heres a quick tutorial on how to get it up and running on your PC. First off, you have a choice of two development environments: Instant Rails, the command line environment, or RadRails, the Eclipse based IDE (Integrated Development Environment).

Man, this looks very cool. They fly more than they ski. Theres some stomach churning cliffs on the way down.

Heres a list of useful resources for programming for the Palm. OnboardC is a complete C programming environment for your Palm. The source editor, resource editor and compiler all run on your Palm so you can develop on the move. Handheld Basic++ (HB++) from Peter Holmes Consulting is a complete and very well designed visual [...]

Real World Software Development has a comprehensive list of web 2.0 web sites including bookmarking sites, social communities, email, image and video sharing, and the list is getting longer. One application that has been omitted from all the lists I’ve seen so far is Outlook Web Access from Microsoft. Sure, it needs a Microsoft Exchange [...]

uTorrent Weighing in at a tiny 171K, uTorrent packs an incredible amount of functionality compared to Azureus which comes to 14.8Mb, and thats not even including the plugins and Java runtime. There is an add-on for Firefox that integrates uTorrent’s Web Interface (which needs to be downloaded separately) into the Firefox sidebar to display upload [...]

The StatTraq plugin for WordPress has a bug where the Year and Month time periods are not displayed correctly. Here is a fix for the problem. Download calendar_php.zip. Extract calendar.php from the file and copy it into your \wp-stattraq folder, replacing the file that already exists there. Now when you check your StatTraq statistics, you [...]

StatTraq is one of the better statistics for WordPress blogs. Unfortunately Randy Peterman is no longer maintaining it, but Adsworth have patched a version which will run under WordPress v1.5 and 2.0 as well as fixing a couple of bugs. I often forget the url to view my StatTraq statistics so I wanted to add a [...]

“How To Draw: Heroic Anatomy” is the first book of the Wizard How To Draw series on drawing superheroes. Following are some snippets from the section on drawing female superheros. As everything, it starts with the basics, i.e. proportions. Notice how she stands with her hips cocked a little and the leg thrust forward?

Jack Slocum has just created an incredible comment system for WordPress. The demo lets you add comments to any block in the post just by clicking in the left margin. Yellow tags show the number of comments for that block of text, just click the tag to view the comments. What is really nice is [...]

Pacman for MS-Excel is an amazing feat of VBA programming. As far as I can tell (I was never very good at Pacman), its a faithful rendition of the original arcade classic, written in Excel VBA, complete with sound and a demo mode. Excel Space Invaders, also available at the same page, is another excellent [...]

Ratcreature posted an article about drawing comic superheros containing a couple of scanned chapters from a book called How to Draw Comic Superheros available from Amazon. The quality of the book looks excellent and makes me want to start sharpening pencils…. now if only I could draw. Here are some clips from the first book [...]

How to Overclock your toothbrush! Just don’t shred your gums A fantastic Honda Civic commercial with a choir doing the sounds effects. Sling snotty slime around devious mazes. A tutorial on how to make steel and glass icons in Photoshop. The results look very impressive. Using ScummVM and DOSBox to play your favorite old classic [...]

The Washington Post describes one technique that e-gold is using to reduce the likelihood of phishing. It involves displaying images reading “THIS IS A FRAUDULENT WEB SITE” when the image is linked to by any site not included in a whitelist of sites permitted to use those images. While this method is not infallible, anything [...]

Some actually useful and quite surprising household tips from some program on Japanese TV the other night. Make tangerines or oranges extra sweet by putting them in 40C water for 10mins before eating Old jeans are great for cleaning scum from baths and stainless steel basins If you’re trying to push a stalled car, don’t [...]

< @timovgod> Q: How many perverts does it take to put in a light bulb? < @timovgod> A: Just one, but it takes the entire emergency room to get it out. < @enaz> did your insurance cover it timovgod? < @timovgod> My car insurance covered it, I said I had I broken tail light. < [...]

Some very cool WordPress plugins to spice up your blog.

The International Salary Calculator is a good site for those interested in comparing incomes between cities. Basically you punch in your income in the city you currently live in and then pick where you want to live and it will tell you how much you need to earn in the new country/city to have the [...]

The Definitive How-to guide for preparing an unattended installer for Office 2003 http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/50/ Note that previous Office versions recommended installing from an administrative install point, however from Office 2003 Microsoft now recommends using the Office Local Cache for deployment. Although this takes up an additional 290MB of local disk space and you cannot slipstream patches to [...]

Theres an interesting article at http://www.nordichardware.com/Articles/?skrivelse=465 on how to undervolt your laptop. Undervolting involves reducing the voltage your CPU operates at with the result of lowering your laptops temperature and the amount of power used, so you get longer battery life, all without reducing performance or stability. I’ve got to try this on my desktop because [...]

JP pointed out a very sexy keyboard. Every key of the Optimus keyboard is a display in itself and can change depending on the function it is assigned for. Very cool indeed.